"Amazon USA is Janus, pure and simple. You get 5-stars reviews and tremendous praise...or you get 1-star reviews which are so poisonous (the July 2011 one for "Valentino", by Markus King being a prime example)that they defy belief. If someone leaves a 5-star review, you can guarantee that a poison review will pop up the next day. The homophobic Valentino female fans are the worst--easy to discern here, they cannot accept that he was gay, loathe anyone who suggests that he might have been, and have set up a hotbed of loathing against this author. There is of course a maxim to all of this: if Bret's books were SO bad, how come that he has been publishing for a quarter-century, and outselling ALL of his rivals?

The Valentino quotes by himself are absolutely insane. Yes let's ruin the lives of several decent people because they know you're just writing your script fantasies when you say *insert dead male celeb here* was gay.

Just like you say you totally met with Garbo...even though there will be no proof of it (same for Dietrich).

Guess by that logic I met Tracy Terhune, David Bret and Rudolph Valentino!

Rudy was nice, but the other two were so busy pissing themselves and screaming in the corners I decided not to approach them...

Still, it keeps his fantasy world alive because his real one is so miserable.

Ain't that the truth. One can picture Badboy bret at his computer from 7 in the morning till late at night, with his teeth beside him in a glass jar, head scarf wrapped around his head with three curlers al la Hilda Ogden style, ranting and raving at why people aren't discussing him. And ranting and raving when people are. In truth he is a sad deluded little scrawny man who since childhood has lived in a fantasy world. Even an old school comrade informed someone I know that his David Bret biography is a figment of his imagination, as is the story of who his god parents were.

If he wasn't so pitiful you really would feel sorry for him......But I don't!

And if the village idiot wasn't anymore deluded, this is a posting he made today on the FB page Maddie - In Search of Truth.

David Bret Kelli, if I was on their side I'd be the best writer since Dickens. My blog isn't dirty, and I've never accused the McCanns of anything beyond neglect. You'll even see "Mc" among the members!3 hours ago · 2

And this was the reply from Kelli, who looks as though she could be related to Bret if she took her make up off with a sheet of sandpaper.

Bret loathes fan forums:"They place their idols on pedestals, which is as it should be--but with some fans they see the idols only as THEY want to to see them, and not as they really were, frequently warts and all. They think if these stars returned, they would have eyes for them alone. This would never happen. A minority of members aside, these people are psychologically disturbed. They have their idols inside their heads twenty-four-seven."

And, of those infamous one-star reviews:

"Again, most of these are written by overzealous forum members, mostly bigoted Americans and almost always with silly names, for other overzealous forum members with silly names to pick up on and comment on....and so the spectacle continues, ad infinitum. Most normal people who come to Amazon to buy books, records, etc, buy them because they WANT to buy them. They ignore such reviews and Amazon KNOW that they ignore them, otherwise such reviews would be removed. After all, what company would willingly want to DISSUADE customers from buying the product?"

they see the idols only as THEY want to to see them, and not as they really were

Of course they do, but no-one has the right to take away from them maybe a little dream; it's like telling a small child that Father Christmas is a myth, or Peter Pan is a fairytale. We all have our idols, I have, and I don't really want to know the 'other' side of their lives; I am happy if, say, a sportsman I admire wins the Dubai Golf Classic 5 years in a row, or hits a century against Australia, or shoots the goal that takes a favorite football team to the top of the tree; what he does elsewhere is none of my concern. What matters is his ability to do something I would dearly love to do, but can't. Personally, a celebrity's private life should be just that, private, not a subject for tittle-tattle and speculation.

David made the claim, and lets not forget he makes many claims, that she had heard a radio interview of him, he was supposedly in Chicago at the time, and he claimed that she rang the radio station and made the "supposeded" announcment about him. Now this is one of many versions of the story, as is his attending of the University of Chicago to talk about Valentino in front of Barak Obama Seriously there's telling tall tales and then there's being the long lost brother of the Brothers Grimm.

I came across an interesting FB post today made by Bret on the Maddie In Search of the Truth page, and of which I attempted to search Amazon.com in which will hopefully confirm to the doubters what we all know about Badboy Bret, he had claimed to the reviewer - after harrassing her that his account had been cloned, and he apologised profusely. He blamed that his doubters were out to get him blah, blah. Sadly the post has now been deleted by Amazon.com, who to their credit have deleted many of Badboys abusive remarks At least someone has taken a stand?

David Bret Not sure, Anna. I believe people come up with these cloning stories when they're looking for an excuse after going too far--in Ms Butler's case when she'ss had too much to drink. Much of the stuff I see on Twitter is OTT. The same people regurgitating the same stuff all the time, like cracked records, so much so that the genuine people get swamped by all the tit-for-tat insults.

Looks like I may have caught David Badboy Brets nerve in regards to his meeting of Obama and the supposed comment made about him by Elizabeth Taylor (and guess what the story takes another turn).

Now, now Badboy when are you going to stop telling fibs, you were never giving a talk at the University of Chicago about Valentino, that's the story you made up in retailation to Evelyn Zumaya.... And as for the Elizabeth comment, you really need to keep your posts checked before you start posting. I have a very good friend who was at the University of Chicago in 1998, who has confirmed that you were NOT at the event. And as for studio machine????? Is that another phrase for a telephone???

Seriously give up writing books, and start a career as a comedian. You really are the punchline to the worst joke ever put on a human.

Welcome Carew1452 or would mind me calling you Nick, so glad you could finally make a post. I have it on very good authority that David Bret DID NOT attend the event. Since Bret has made the claims he has been asked by several people for proof, of course he refused to comply. I am aware that Wendy Wasserstein, Edward Hirsch, Galway Kinnell were all part of the festival, but no mention of Bret......

However I have to decline divulging my personal details, as I wouldn't want those getting into the wrong hands, what with all this cloning and false profiles malarky going on......

Thank you Nick for the article, but I'm not too sure what your trying to prove by posting it, as I don't see how it relates to Badboy Bret. Certainly I see Neil Harris, Katerina Ruedi, Peter Gay, Dominic Pacyga and Fintan O'Toole mentioned but no sign of Bret Perhaps Brets was using one of his many puesdoynms?????

Made for interesting reading, so thank you again for posting. Hope you have had a great Easter Sunday. I see by viewing the google links that your based in the Yorkshire, North East & Humberside Region? I hope the weather has stayed good in your area?